The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre or the 1984 Sikh genocide, was a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. From Wikipedia
A Delhi court rejected calls for the death penalty, citing mitigating factors, in convicting the former Congress MP for leading a mob that killed two Sikh men.